Young v. Marlas

On May 5, 1950, Leona Young, a nineteen-year-old elevator operator in Iowa City, was walking on the sidewalk in front of Lubin’s drugstore. She was cut and injured when the transom glass above the display window fell and shattered on the sidewalk beside her. In her suit against the owners and lessees of the drugstore building she relied upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The defendants denied that they were guilty of any negligeh.ee in the construction, installation or maintenance of the transom glass, and denied negligence on their part which caused plaintiff’s injuries and alleged any…